Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment:
> It would be nice to freeze argparse.py and its dependencies. For > command-line tools, startup time is important. I quickly checked, and argparse has at least these dependencies: argparse re enum types operator functools collections keyword reprlib sre_compile sre_parse sre_constants copyreg gettext Raymond, do you think we should also freeze the dependencies of runpy (so "python -m <module>" also starts faster)? That would be runpy importlib warnings importlib.machinery importlib.util importlib._abc contextlib collections keyword operator reprlib functools types (I didn't dedupe this from the previous list.) With all these modules frozen we'd probably run more risk of two things: - frozen modules don't have a __file__ (and are missing a few other, less commonly used, attributes) - editing a frozen module requires rebuilding, or running with -X frozen_modules=off ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45020> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
